It's still all over the map. 12 inches in a foot. 3 feet in a yard. 1760 yards in a mile. And that's just distance. Let's face it, if this wasn't a system we were born into, it'd never make sense. Hell, I've been using it all my life and it still seems pretty screwy.

Metric is so much better it's ridiculous that we don't use it everywhere. I had a Fiat (metric) and a Pontiac I needed screws for of different sized, It took me about 15 minutes to find the right ones for the Pontiac, and just a glance to find the metrics, and the display was 4 times bigger trying to find the ones for the Pontiac. And 24hr time is better if you are a moll.

It doesn't make much sense to divide the day in 2 periods of 12 hours. There is 24 hours in a day. So counting the hours in the 24 hour format makes the most sense. The ancient romans and jews counted the hours in 2 periods of 12 hours from sunset to sunset. But it was very inaccurate because the sunset hour change during the year. The sunset is later in the summer .The sunset is earlier in the last months of the year .

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It's still all over the map. 12 inches in a foot. 3 feet in a yard. 1760 yards in a mile. And that's just distance. Let's face it, if this wasn't a system we were born into, it'd never make sense. Hell, I've been using it all my life and it still seems pretty screwy.

I'm not saying it's always better to use imperial standard, just that I prefer using it. WHY CAN'T YOU LET ME MAKE THINGS HARD FOR MYSELF???? lol

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It doesn't make much sense to divide the day in 2 periods of 12 hours. There is 24 hours in a day. So counting the hours in the 24 hour format makes the most sense. The ancient romans and jews counted the hours in 2 periods of 12 hours from sunset to sunset. But it was very inaccurate because the sunset hour change during the year. The sunset is later in the summer .The sunset is earlier in the last months of the year.

I prefer the 24 hour clock ( in the USA is often know as the military clock). Do you guys prefer the 12 hour clock or the 24 hour clock? The 24 hour clock is the best.

I prefer the 24 hour system having spent 13 years in the military. I set all my clocks to the 24 hour system (except those antique clocks that cannot be reset) and have no problem switching back and forth between them so if I am dealing with most people I use the 12 hour clock (obviously I live in the US).

Either is fine for me except when my brain suddenly can't subtract 12 for reasons unknown.. I've always wondered why the clock can't be metric with 10 hours, 100 minutes, 100 seconds, etc.. I once designed and made such a face for a clock, but the movements are all designed for 12 and 24..the second hand never landed on the right indices.. Perhaps I should have used a continual movement.. Wwll duh..just saw the decimal clock.. We need decimal threads so I don't have to click on the next page..